Re: [ANN] Luam: A minimalist, procedural Lua dialect for CAD (Luametry)
"'Martin Eden' via lua-l" <[email protected]>
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On 2026-02-14 15:49, Ben Sivan wrote: > Hello everyone, > > [...] > > As a long-time admirer of Lua’s minimalism, my goal with Luam was to > further constrain the language for a specific domain. In many ways, Luam is > a "subtractive" dialect; I found that by removing certain features and > standardizing others, I could create a more predictable environment for 3D > modeling. Hello Ben, I think it's nice project Points where I agree (and don't use in my code anyway): * No metatables * nil is not boolean * Local by default I have no opinion about "enhanced REPL", don't use it much. But decision to remove multiline comments looks strange to me. If you allow multiline strings why forbid multiline comments? They are actually fine, in last ten years I'm moving to block comments describing what following block of code does. -- Martin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "lua-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/lua-l/643fd217-6c1a-4eb0-9dbd-7eaa4dd4a97e%40disroot.org.